Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz headline 2010 Coachella Festival lineup

Jay-Z, Muse and Gorillaz have been tapped to headline the 11th Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
The country’s premier alternative music event takes place April 16-18 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., outside of Palm Springs.

The trio will be joined by more than 130 acts, including a reunited Pavement, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke (billed as Thom Yorke????, which we’ll explain in a minute), Vampire Weekend, Them Crooked Vultures, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, Tiësto, Faith No More, Deadmau5, David Guetta, MGMT and Public Image Limited.

So what’s with Thom Yorke????. We thought it be might that his appearance was questionable or not confirmed, but before we could ask the Coachella folks, our colleagues at Entertainment Weekly beat us to the punch. It turns out that Yorke will be playing with the group that backed him for a few L.A. dates last year, including Red Hot Chili Pepper’s Flea and producer Nigel Godrich. After he didn’t name that group, he saw some signs that tagged the assemblage as Thom Yorke????. The name stuck.

Tickets go on sale on Jan. 22. Three-day passes are $269 plus surcharges. Once again, Coachella will offer lay-away and camping packages. For more info, go to www.coachella.com.